By ELLEN LEWIS
Writing today’s blog presented me with a challenge. I really wanted to due diligence on the Freya Spring 17 swim collection. But since the Eveden brands, of which Freya claims a robust residency, deliver every month; and because I have a personal obsession with visual merchandising, even on-line, I found myself with a choice dilemma. I had to make a decision on what to showcase here, … Read More
R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y……say the word out loud. How does it make you feel? It gives me goosebumps because it describes people who are fearless, radical, avant-garde, inspirational and on the forefront of a movement to make things better for all of us, whether it be political or creative. . . . Today, in her blog, Tina Wilson illustrates and expounds on the Lingerie that changed the direction of our industry. READ … Read More
By TINA WILSON
R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y……say the word out loud. How does it make you feel? It gives me goosebumps because it describes people who are fearless, radical, avant-garde, inspirational and on the forefront of a movement to make things better for all of us, whether it be political or creative. I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit, and happened upon another exhibit entitled “WE WANT A … Read More
From across the pond, Jessica Prebble, founder and creative director of Tutti Rouge, skypes with Deedee Crosland and shares her stories and career path to developing this super successful, fun and flirty lingerie brand. Their mission is: Beautiful Bras for Curvy Girls in sizes 28-38 D-HH and everything in between. Also Jessica’s launching Rougette, an exciting new, fuller-figure sister brand… (She also shares some very amusing stories!) Listen to find … Read More
For any of you who are not horse lovers, it is not easy to explain my passion. It is not about riding the horse. It is all about being with her. The best part of the sport is, in my opinion, about touch and what it does to my essential being. It is a powerful, immensely private emotion that lifts me from daily tedium into another stratosphere. I am in … Read More
When my family was very young, we purchased a house in Long Beach, NY which my husband and I always referred to as a “Ozzie and Harriet house” For those of you who are not familiar with the 1952-66 TV sitcom or the era that it defined, this phrase was, to the two of us, a metaphor for a boring, predictable and relatively narrow minded perspective of the American culture. … Read More
I am particularly excited about Alison’s Gallery post this week because this Madrid based brand, Botica Lingerie, goes right to the heart of Lingerie Briefs with its motto “nude is the color of the soul”. Rendered in beautifully mastered photographs, it harkens back to when, as a teenager returning from France, US customs tried to confiscate an art book of feminine photography that I was bringing home. Suffice it to … Read More